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11 Flowers

Wang Xiaoshuai

China 2011, 110 min.

Fiction

Spoken language: Mandarin

During the Cultural Revolution, Wang Han, an eleven-year-old boy living in the Chinese province of Ghizou, is proud to be the leader of a group gymnastics class, which takes place every morning in the schoolyard. One day, however, Wang Han crosses the path of a murderer on the run in a forest. That’s when he realises that the grown-up world isn’t as simple and organised as he had thought. (Festival Scope, 2012)